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This week's U.S.-Mexico Border Update is out. It explains:
* The Biden administration's new asylum "transit ban."
* Persistent problems with the "CBP One" app.
* How applying title 42 caused a jump in Cuban maritime migration.
* The Supreme Court's cancellation of oral arguments in the Title 42 case.
With this series of weekly updates, WOLA seeks to cover the most important developments at the U.S.-Mexico border. See past weekly updates here. This week: The Biden administration released a draft rule that, if implemented, would deny asylum to many migrants who passed through other countries on their way to the U.S.-Mexico border, and did […]
The Onion, still a national treasure.
https://www.theonion.com/u-s-successfully-shoots-down-kid-jumping-too-high-on-t-1850140813
WASHINGTON—Following weeks of closer scrutiny into objects entering U.S. airspace, Pentagon officials announced Tuesday that they’d successfully shot down a kid jumping too high on a trampoline. “The airborne object spotted about nine feet above a small midwestern town was successfully downed by an American F-22 with…
This Tijuana businessman is honorably promoting his city. But the local paper does him slight favor with the headline "'The fifth most violent city' is in first place in many positive respects."
Pide no ver el vaso medio lleno o medio vacío, “sino la justa dimensión de las cosas”; esta frontera es más grande que sus problemas y hay que trabajar unidos en las soluciones, dice.
#Guatemala forces found 2 coca fields in Esquipulas, a municipality best known for a historic peace accord Central America's presidents signed there in 1987.
This seems like a big deal.
- In early January, the Biden administration expanded Title 42 so that Cuban migrants could be expelled back across the land border into Mexico. The number of #Cuba citizens at the U.S.-Mexico border plunged 85%.
- *Meanwhile* in the Miami area in January, the number of Cuban migrants, apprehended after taking boats and rafts across the Florida Straits, jumped 260%.
Texas is the 2nd most racially diverse state in the union. Its borderlands even more so.
... and here's Texas leadership convening some guys named Greg, Brian, Steve, Tom, and Mike for a security meeting at the border yesterday.
Survey data from ACLU Texas: "One-third of interviewees said they avoided going to the hospital out of fear of encountering Border Patrol… Several respondents noted they were stopped by Border Patrol for looking suspicious or for driving with their headlights off during the day."
https://www.aclutx.org/en/publications/harms-border-patrol-daily-life-along-texas-border
In Texas border communities, Border Patrol agents are everywhere: schools, hospitals, grocery stores, and other public spaces. Between September 2021 and May 2022, the ACLU of Texas interviewed 152 people living in the Rio Grande Valley.We found that Border Patrol’s indiscriminate harassment and baseless traffic stops make our border feel less safe for citizens, green card
